Among the concrete causes of Southern hostility was the attitude of some of the higher officials and many of the lower ones toward the white people.

They assumed that the whites were unwilling to accord fair treatment to the blacks in the matter of wages, schools, and justice.

An official in Louisiana declared that the whites would exterminate the Negroes if the Bureau were removed.

A few months later General Fullerton in the same State reported that trouble was caused by those agents who noisily demanded special privileges for the Negro but who objected to any penalties for his lawlessness and made of the Negroes a pampered class.

General Tillson in Georgia predicted the extinction of the "old time Southerner with his hate, cruelty, and malice." General Fisk declared that "there are some of the meanest, unsubjugated and unreconstructed rascally revolutionists in Kentucky that curse the soil of the country...